That Was The Day

Even after 74 years of Jammu genocide, when thousands of Muslims were massacred by mobs and paramilitaries led by the army of Dogra ruler Hari Singh, the sufferings of Kashmiris have not ended.

No longer under the Dogra Raj, but the condition of the Kashmiris have only gone from bad to worse under the Indian occupation army in the illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.

OCTOBER 27 is the black day on which India had invaded the disputed Jammu and Kashmir state back in 1947. Alastair Lamb in his book, Incomplete Partition: The Genesis of the Kashmir Dispute 1947-1948, writes: “According to Wolpert, VP Menon returned to Delhi from Srinagar on the morning of Oct 26 with no signed Instrument of Accession.

On this day 73 years ago, Indian Security forces landed in Srinagar to illegally occupy the territory and subjugate people of Jammu and Kashmir in clear violation of international law and humanitarian norms. On 5 August 2019, India moved to alter the disputed status of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) and change its demographic structure. The illegal and unilateral Indian actions have been rejected by the Kashmiri people, by Pakistan, and by the international community for being in violation

The people of Jammu and Kashmir have been resisting the Indian occupation for the last 70 years. They are involved in a freedom struggle, facing the worst kind of Indian state terrorism. They have braved the Indian subjugation and atrocities with great courage and New Delhi has failed to intimidate them into submission.

What was the death toll in the killing fields of Jammu? There are no official figures, so one has to go by reports in the British press of that period. Horace Alexander’s article on 16 January 1948 in The Spectator is much quoted; he put the number killed at 200,000.

Kashmir is a source of long standing dispute between Pakistan and India, which originated when the people of Jammu and Kashmir state were denied the right of self-determination in 1947.

Our world, inhabited by the supreme creation that we call Humans, witnessed the rise and fall of many empires over its history. History has many distinctive aspects that turn it to an exceptional entity thereby letting people of all ages, colours, and tastes to oscillate about its timeline and get a line of events from diversified perspectives arriving at conclusions, though diversified in nature. That is the essence of history and its timeline is an axis of that essence. The influence of events of history do not just lock up to the walls and barricades of the time they occur in, however, it stretches across many generations of human society directly affecting their lives.

The sun rises every day from the horizon of eastern sphere of universe and uncovers the mute darkness to the serene morning of hope, dignity, self-esteem and justice for all the creatures of the world. However, on 27th Oct six decades ago, the morning as usual was serene and nurturing the life when suddenly at 9:30 it was bustled and tyrannized when illegal Indian army landed at the Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) airport. The mornings thereafter have not ceased to appear, they do appear as they ought to follow the universal laws but their appearances have been laden with despair, ignominy, insecurity and unjustness.